That that Alan/Allan looked class for Napoli. They are impressive in style and with their continued patience and how they continually look for the pass out from the back, but seem to be lacking the quality you’d come to associate with them in recent times. Even at the end when it dropped to the guy on the edge of the box you weren;t really expecting him to score. Maybe unfair as don’t get to see any Italian stuff now BT lost the rights.

Fantastic save from Allison. Mane really reverted to his previous self, lacks the finese at times to really be considered in that top bracket of striker when you see him have games like today. 3 really poor misses.

Fair to say that Alisson save is being overhyped because of what happened to Karius? The shot was quite literally straight at him. I get the instant takes on it because of the circumstances & the timing, I get Klopp’s reaction to it. But come on, watch it again & you’ll see it was straight at him, there was no clever or intuitive positioning involved.

Fair to say that Alisson save is being overhyped because of what happened to Karius? The shot was quite literally straight at him. I get the instant takes on it because of the circumstances & the timing, I get Klopp’s reaction to it. But come on, watch it again & you’ll see it was straight at him, there was no clever or intuitive positioning involved.

Yeah, haven’t read what Klopp said (though saw his comments referenced in a Graun headline) but at the time I thought the commentators were a bit OTT about it. Milik shot right at him, it was more block than save.

Alisson deserves praise simply for not being a passive keeper in crunch time. I get the feeling he will be one of those who live on the verge of terrible mistakes, but show up big when required i.e. Neuer, Navas, Ter Stegen. Not sure how much of it is down to the current title hunt circumstances. He’s definitely up on the seesaw though.

Yeah, was a save, but that’s about it. He didn’t actually narrow the angle much, if any. No problem with him getting credit, but it wasn’t that special and would put down as a bad miss rather than amazing save. Everything like that gets hyped even more when it’s Klopp. Not saying it’s a bad thing really, but it is what it is.

If the striker had composure and scored, everybody would be saying Liverpool couldn’t close the game out and put them to bed. But as it is, I have seen articles saying this is “the new and improved Liverpool”, which I think is a bit much. Fine margins.

Not to be slating Liverpool, as it probably looks from a United fan. I just think there is a bad period coming soon.

Still much better than our shit show at the moment, so good luck to them.

Whats really annoying is this loss isn’t going to do anything to hurry up the sacking of Mourinho .

The best thing that could have happened to United is that they don’t come back against Newcastle and he’s sacked after that. They’ve strung enough decent results since to buy himself time until the season ends, and to further damage the squad come January.

United rival Arsenal in terms of boardroom ineptitude when it comes to football, but it would be scandalous if Woody Woodward is not only allowed to carry on in his job, but gets to sack Jose and pick his replacement. For all of Jose’s faults, and ya’ll know how much I love to list them, Woody has fucked up equally in doing his job.

Complete and utter misses with managerial appointments, multiple squad turnovers that sent hundreds of millions down the drain, and most recently not only did he not back Jose in the transfer market, he didn’t sack him. He’s basically giving him a rope to hang himself with, which is insane.

What I don’t understand is how Jose still has the backing of Old Trafford. I remember Duncun Castle (yuck) was on Second Captains months ago and was saying that Jose still had the match-going fans’ support and Ken was flabbergasted by that notion (as was I), but it seems to be very much the case. Is there something they are seeing that the rest of us, blinkered not-neutrals, are not seeing?

Whats really annoying is this loss isn’t going to do anything to hurry up the sacking of Mourinho .

The best thing that could have happened to United is that they don’t come back against Newcastle and he’s sacked after that. They’ve strung enough decent results since to buy himself time until the season ends, and to further damage the squad come January.

United rival Arsenal in terms of boardroom ineptitude when it comes to football, but it would be scandalous if Woody Woodward is not only allowed to carry on in his job, but gets to sack Jose and pick his replacement. For all of Jose’s faults, and ya’ll know how much I love to list them, Woody has fucked up equally in doing his job.

Complete and utter misses with managerial appointments, multiple squad turnovers that sent hundreds of millions down the drain, and most recently not only did he not back Jose in the transfer market, he didn’t sack him. He’s basically giving him a rope to hang himself with, which is insane.

What I don’t understand is how Jose still has the backing of Old Trafford. I remember Duncun Castle (yuck) was on Second Captains months ago and was saying that Jose still had the match-going fans’ support and Ken was flabbergasted by that notion (as was I), but it seems to be very much the case. Is there something they are seeing that the rest of us, blinkered not-neutrals, are not seeing?

You should, in my opinion, always back your manager on match day. If you are going to the match, back the team, back the manager. Even though I thought Wenger should have gone, I never thought booing him was good. Mourinho has a way too of bringing fans behind him, even at the times he is at his worst. I don’t hate him like others do, I have stood up for him a lot. I do think his football isn’t good enough now and feel like football (and particularly English football) has passed him by now with the introduction of Klopp, Pep, Poch and now Emery. They have a fairly hardcore “brand of football”, something we just don’t have.

Whats really annoying is this loss isn’t going to do anything to hurry up the sacking of Mourinho .

The best thing that could have happened to United is that they don’t come back against Newcastle and he’s sacked after that. They’ve strung enough decent results since to buy himself time until the season ends, and to further damage the squad come January.

United rival Arsenal in terms of boardroom ineptitude when it comes to football, but it would be scandalous if Woody Woodward is not only allowed to carry on in his job, but gets to sack Jose and pick his replacement. For all of Jose’s faults, and ya’ll know how much I love to list them, Woody has fucked up equally in doing his job.

Complete and utter misses with managerial appointments, multiple squad turnovers that sent hundreds of millions down the drain, and most recently not only did he not back Jose in the transfer market, he didn’t sack him. He’s basically giving him a rope to hang himself with, which is insane.

What I don’t understand is how Jose still has the backing of Old Trafford. I remember Duncun Castle (yuck) was on Second Captains months ago and was saying that Jose still had the match-going fans’ support and Ken was flabbergasted by that notion (as was I), but it seems to be very much the case. Is there something they are seeing that the rest of us, blinkered not-neutrals, are not seeing?

Mourinho wasn’t ever going to get sacked on the back of the Newcastle game. He will be sacked the second we mathematically can’t qualify for the champions league as we appear to have that as a stipulation in our managers contracts and he can be fired on the cheap.

Fully agree that Edwoodwoodwood is as culpable as Mourinho, although not as poisonous. He’s clearly good at getting advertising contracts, but is a disaster on the football side and a director of football is sorely needed, to sit alongside Woodward, not beneath him. A journalist somewhere, possibly Ken Early, recently went strong on Gary Neville wanting Ed’s job. I’d like to see Van der Sar brought in, having seen him do very well directing Ajax. A link between changing room and board room would be welcomed and for too long it was assumed this would be the class of 92, but they burned bridges with Hotel Football etc.

I’m pretty sure the match going fans only publicly back Mourhino as they want to be seen as backing the manager, to not be perceived as reactionary, short termist and expecting glory.

City vs Hoffenheim was a great little game. City easily could have won it by 5 or 6 goals, whilst Hoffenheim had their moments too. City messed up a 3 vs 1 with the 1 being the goalkeeper. The breakaway started after Hoffenheim threw EVERYONE up for a corner bar the keeper - it was only about the 60th minute! Sterling picked the ball up on the edge of his area & was already clear through on goal!

Sterling was absolutely immense btw. Sane had a weird mix of bad touches but his lighting speed gets him out of the situation & to the ball first.

Getting some predictions in so I can laugh at how stupid I am in a few months:

Man City
Jeez… erm, Atleti? Will be tasty regardless
PSG
Fuck… erm, leaning towards Spurs, but only because I think Dortmund may run out of steam by then
Barcelona
Porto, great draw for them
Real Madrid
Really struggling to call Liv vs Bayern, on current form Liverpool

Getting some predictions in so I can laugh at how stupid I am in a few months:

Man City
Jeez… erm, Atleti? Will be tasty regardless
PSG
Fuck… erm, leaning towards Spurs, but only because I think Dortmund may run out of steam by then
Barcelona
Porto, great draw for them
Real Madrid
Really struggling to call Liv vs Bayern, on current form Liverpool

City
Juve
PSG - although I wouldn’t be surprised if Jose pulled a result out of nowhere just to confuse everything
Spurs
Barca
Porto
Real
Liverpool

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